US Patent Issued to REALTIME ROBOTICS on May 19 for "Configuration of robot operational environment including layout of sensors" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,978, issued on May 19, was assigned to REALTIME ROBOTICS INC. (Boston).

"Configuration of robot operational environment including layout of sensors" was invented by Jenni Lam (Boston) and Aakash Murugan (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layout of a robotic operational environment is optimized to at least reduce or minimize occlusion of one or more sensors, to improve computational efficiency of motion planning, and/or improve an efficiency and/or robustness of generated motions plans. A respective sensor pose (i.e., positioned and oriented) for one or more sensors may be determined while taking into account the various robot po...